History of Health Insurance
After the 1950s, this form of insurance became the primary means for delivering health care services in the United States.
What is private health insurance?
This term refers to large-scale changes in government policy to make health insurance more accessible.
What is "health care reform" ?
This graduate medical education takes place in a hospital after serving a one-year rotating internship and can last up to six years.
What is residency?
These government-run facilities are considered to be the forerunner of today's nursing homes and hospitals, acting as an infirmary, asylum, homeless shelter, orphanage, and elderly home.
What are almshouses?
In contrast to the United State's overemphasis on new technology and specialization in health care, other developed countries emphasized this ensuring the coordination, continuity, and appropriateness of services that the patient receives.
What is primary care?
This is another name for "private health insurance."
What is "voluntary health insurance" ?
These two government-financed programs were established as part of the Security Act of 1965 and led to wider healthcare coverage for older and poorer Americans.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
This medicine is practiced by DOs and focuses on the musculoskeletal system.
What is osteopathic medicine?
This type of institution was controlled by local governments and used to isolate those with contagious diseases (yellow fever, small pox, etc).
What are pesthouses?
Organized medicine; This organization played an important role in protecting physician's interests and galvanizing the medical profession during this period.
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
In 1939, the California Medical Association developed a plan intended to pay physician's fees and therefore protect its own financial interests.
What is the Blue Shield plan?
This 2010 act was the U.S. government's most recent, large-scale attempt at expanding health insurance since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
In the United Stats, these physicians deal with particular diseases or organ system and require additional years of training and practice.
What are specialists?
These institutions were created to provide free health services for those who could not afford to pay for them; Staffed by medical students and young physicians, these institutions provided basic care and medicine.
What are dispensaries?
The "Father of Antiseptic Surgery;" This figure popularized the cleaning of wounds during surgery to prevent infection (antisepsis).
Who is Joseph Lister?
During World War I, this term was used in relation to any large-scale government-sponsored attempts at expanding health insurance as a result of the Anti-German rhetoric taking place in the United States.
What is "socialized medicine"?
This 2014 Supreme Court case ruled that the requirement for employers with strong religious beliefs to provide contraceptives deemed to induce abortions is a violation of the 1933 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
What is Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.?
This state has a low of 186.1 active physicians per 100,000 people compared to the United State's average 271.6.
What is Mississippi?
This profession's red-and-white striped poles serve as reminder that they once functioned as surgeons.
What are barbers?
This 1910 published paper inspected medical schools and found widespread inconsistencies in medical eduction, leading to the formalization of education standards in medical schools.
What is the Flexner Report?
In 1929, this figure established a hospital insurance plan for teachers at Texas' Baylor University Hospital, ultimately providing the blueprint for modern health insurance.
Who is Justin F. Kimball?
This bill was passed by U.S. Congress in 2017 and repealed a mandate in the Affordable Care Act requiring all Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
What is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?
What are geriatricians?
The "Father of American Psychiatry;" This figure used methods of bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths, and mercury to treat mental illness, believing it to be caused irritation of blood vessels in the brain.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
This 1999 Supreme Court case resulted in the requirement for states to provide community-based services for those with mental illness.
What is Olmstead v. L.C.?